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Culture

Memory and Art Talks

Memory and Art Talks
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Memory and Art Talks
Author
Eylem Ertürk, Sevim Sancaktar
Publisher
Hafıza ve Sanat Konuşmaları 2020
Year of Publication
2021
Abstract

Hafıza Merkezi has constituted this “selection/archive” by uniting some more than 400 artworks from the fields of visual and performing arts in order to cast a look at memory through the lens of art, opened it to different readings, thus allowing for the narrations of memory to be disseminated, for its parts to multiply, coincides exactly with the notion of adventure. In the temporality opened and inscribed by this valuable project, which carries the discontent of aesthetics to the fields of memory and politics, the archive will continue to form, to transform, to differentiate, to challenge with its unreadable parts. While writing this introduction, I have tried to join in this adventure by re-organising the themes, rearranging the writers’ words. As Banu Karaca states in her essay, in a reference to a scene31 of the film that documents Angela Davis’ and Yuri Kochiyama’s comraderie, “We are here. And it is from here that we begin.

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